Yes, it’s official. Jon and I are on a diet.
Well, kind of. It’s not a proper diet, we have just decided to start eating less, less quantities and less times a day, checking on the calories each time too. And then go for a 30min walk around the block every night after dinner. Little exercise is way better than no exercise. If after a couple of weeks we see no apparent change, then we will look into a proper diet like weightwatchers or similar…
And although I know some people might say that we don’t need it (I doubt a GP would consider us obese), we really do. We have been looking at old pictures and we have been putting on weight constantly since we met. We both used to be slim and slender and now we both have beer bellies that are expanding towards other parts of the body. We can’t tolerate this.
It doesn’t help that both my younger brother and his wife have been on a diet since the last time we saw them over Christmas, and when we saw them again a couple of weeks ago they both looked so much better having lost the weight (my brother still needs to lose some more, as he was really fat!). It’s not nice being the fattest of your immediate family, when you used to be the fittest always…
We have both created accounts on www.livestrong.com, which is a project created by Lance Amstrong and has got lots of great tools to keep track of your caloric intake and burning as well.
So, yeah, our “operación bikini” has just started… Let’s see what the bikinis say on our next beach holiday! (still to be booked…)
Back in 2006, when we started dating….
We both used to be so thin!
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We’re regular users of Dailystrong ourselves :^)
It’s not nice to have advice on dieting by a stranger (I know from experience), so I’ll save my remarks. If you want to go pro and still save a bit of money, go for DietPower 4.4 – a similar kind of software than the one WeightWatchers gives its paying customers. Better, actually, because it offers well researched nutritional and dieting info and not all that pointsplus crap.
Good luck with it! Love your hair on that picture, by the way, it really suits you.
I gradually lost about eleven kg in the months after giving birth. If I can do it, anyone can.
María, siempre fuiste super flaca, no creo que ahora la situación sea dramática, pero cuidarse un poco nunca viene mal. A pesar de las torrijas, yo tb estoy intentando perder algo de peso, aunque reconozco que me cuesta mucho trabajo. Ah! Has hecho trampa, has colgado fotos de cuando estábais delgados, pero no de ahora. ¿Cómo vamos a notar el antes y el después?
